I'm confused

so i was going around my outpost when i saw a skeleton horse, when i got close lightning hit it and more skeleton horses appeared with skeletons riding them, what exactly happened?

1.9

I think you found a Skeleton trap. You'll find it documented around a third or halfway down this page: http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Horse

thanks

I think the devs prevented us from being able to ride skeleton horses, though, unfortunately.

Not sure if it'll work on EMC, but in my 1.10 single player world I was able to ride one of the skeleton horses, I think you just have to hit them once with your fist. Not sure if you can eggify them, but it's worth a shot.

I remember me and SkyDragonv8/StoneSky/Unoski have a discussion about it with Aikar about why it wasn't allowed. I hope it gets implemented once, but unless it changed recently, it's not possible to ride skeleton horses on EMC. It is in Vanilla, though.

yea, i tried riding one and EMC plugins wouldnt allow me to ride it

Eggify is not working. not tried to ride it. no saddly handy.

Obligatory.